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J-E/E-J dictionary support

Jim Breen.

http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1KJ
http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C

OK, not quite what you asked :-)

J-E/E-J dictionary support

Jim Breen.

http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1KJ
http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C

OK, not quite what you asked :-)

The name of the satellite has been mistranslated: 'kizuna' () means bonds (as in 'family bonds') and not 'winds', which makes a lot more sense given the satellite's function.

he is correct. Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays. And yes, Google's announcement is sort of a press release at the moment.

Have a look at the market share figures:

http://x.msmobiles.com/portal/images/other/symbian-market-share.jpg

Microsoft's worldwide presence is a joke. In fact, Linux is already far more widely used worldwide than Microsoft, Palm, and RIM combined.

And yes, Google's announcement is sort of a press release at the moment.

It's a press release for something that is going to be available in less than a week for developers, with a dozen industry heavyweights behind it. That's not just a press release.

Wow, nice little tirade there. I was merely pointing out that there are phones with VGA screens on about the same size packages already. Check out the Glofish sometime. But thanks for bothering to look past the first link. Don't know where you pulled the 0.6% market share for WM out from, but I'm guessing its a dark place indeed. You're off by just a smidgen, roughly 16%, but don't worry about it.

But outside of whatever Jobs told you to say, what does web2.0 have to do with any of this? My phone loads flickr, myspace, youtube, etc etc just fine. Opera mobile has the option of 'doing away with style sheets' to view the webpage as a window. Oh, pocket internet exlorer does too, but opera does it a little better since it actually changes the user-agent string to force the desktop view. Oh, have you tried browsing on the Nintendo Wii? Because it looks EXACTLY like navigating the web from the iPhone commercials. Click and drag stuff around, zoom in/out, etc. It's not that great of an experience.

But let's forget all that and revel in the iPhone's presence. afterall, nothing beats having to put your hands in the way of what you're trying to read to navigate, smudging up the screen with finger prints. Don't forget to buy a little bottle of windex when you get yours. You'll have plenty of time to wipe the screen off while you're waiting 10 minutes for everything to load over that WONDERFUL(!) 2G network they provided you with. Remember dialup? Remember loading image heavy webpages (Your wonderful web2.0 applications) over dialup? Get excited!!11!1~

> Can it run OS X?

Jeez, that's meaningful only if you can move your OSX apps to this device and run them unchanged. If they do, then yes, it runs OSX. Otherwise, what Jobs claimed in the keynote was dishonest (gasp!).

Btw, Pocket PCs+Cellphones like the XDA compare very well with this phone. They use a stylus though -- Apple still gets a lot of credit for the multi-touch screen (it seems that the concept is not unique to Apple, although their implementation of is certainly world-class and it will be hard to work around their patents). These Pocket PCs come bundled with a IMAP+POP mail client (Pocket Outlook), Pocket IE and a pocket word processor and spreadsheet. And you can use 3rd party software, like Skype or Opera.

However, the thing with Pocket PCs is that Microsoft has been quite honest about labelling the OS as Windows CE (now Windows Mobile?). Anyone who has the MSDN library will know that CE and desktop Windows are about 85% the same (including support for the .NET framework), but they aren't the same thing. It would have been more honest for Apple to call this OSX Mobile or something. But all that is moot given the current rumors that this won't run 3rd party apps (I do hope those rumors are false and hope to see them debunked soon).

Where have you been? Windows Mobile is still around. Microsoft never cancelled it...

Here's a market share study by Gartner for worldwide shipments. Note that it counts windows smartphones only and not PDA phones. (Smartphones do not have the touch screen; instead, they have a numeric keypad like a normal phone.)

Microsoft's recent earings call indicates that their market share is increasing -- the article quotes a 90% increase. These statistics don't seem to include Linux based phones.

There's been more selection from Symbian phones in the past, but right now there's more Windows Mobile devices available in the USA. Symbian has also been in the market longer.

This article states that Microsoft has a 17% market share and some analyst expects their market share to grow.

Note that almost all Linux phones are shipped in Asia -- I have never seen a Linux phone for sale in the United States, but plenty of Windows phones and a few Symbian ones. The number of Symbian devices available retail from cellular providers seems to be declining here.

I personally use a Symbian phone.

[1]WWWJDIC gives "taitou" as the main reading (http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1MDJtaito u), but my IME (Microsoft IME 2002) only converts the "daitou" reading.
[2]In Mandarin it's pronounced Guan Dao according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwan_dao)

Footnotes in a Slashdot post might seem a bit extreme, but I need to back up my claims after all.

drool... say what you want about windows mobile, but i don't see any other devices with other operating systems that can do what windows mobile does. sure, there's plenty of room for improvement- it seems i have to reboot my ipaq 6315 every day or two, but no other device does as much as it can...

Perhaps you'd want one of these.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/05/203222 0&tid=95&tid=215&tid=185

so my dear criticize-anything /.ers. look who's talking now. skype is making headlines. it's aslo integrated into HTC phones too.
http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/3397.html

In case you didn't notice, Minimo is far from ready for production use, and Opera's far below the projected minimum requirements for Minimo (which Minimo might be able to do some time in the future).

And Nokia is not Opera's biggest market. It is not the only mobile vendor out there!

It happens to be quite big in Europe, but its market share is falling rapidly, and Asia is a huge market as well, where Nokia is not currently very strong in. And of course, there's the US. And Opera/Nokia has stated that, Opera will continue to work closely with Nokia, and Nokia's donations to Mozilla has been known for a long time anyway.

Why the press is blowing this up now is beyond me. It is not exactly news.

And of course: This doesn't mean that Nokia will ditch other projects at all! They are working on their own browser in addition to working closely with Opera, and contributing with funding to Minimo. They are covering all their bases. If you think they are going to go only for Minimo, then you are rather naive. Why would they even bother to work on their own internal browser then? (A browser which, by the way, is already included on their current line of phones.)

And again, Minimo is far from ready for production use. Opera is, and its usage is increasing rapidly.

You are also forgetting that Opera is already becoming a household name on mobiles, which means that it is turning into a well known and popular brand. Nokia recently ran ads bragging about how they had Opera on their phones!

And with a household name comes more publicity. Opera has money to spend on advertising and aggressive marketing. Mozilla is an organization, and does not have that kind of monetary power.

Opera currently provides a superior alternative from a technological stand point, and with this they can build a strong brand name, and thereby build trust and consumer demand.

But seriously, your comment about Opera's biggest market (Nokia is not their biggest market) just getting "ripped away from them" just shows that you don't know what you are talking about.

Oh yeah, and Opera on the desktop is actually more widely used than Firefox in Europe - at least in Eastern European countries such as Poland and Russia. Huge, untapped markets. Firefox might be more widely used in the US, but then again, Mozilla is primarily a US organization.

And finally, ditch the silly eCS line of arguments. What matters here is not that you are bundled with some obscure operating system, but that there is demand for an alternative, and there is. Linux users usually get lots of different browsers with their distribution, yet many of them download Opera!

Please dude, at least get informed before you make silly comments like the above, OK? :)

It comes as no suprise since Nokia's strategy has clearly been one of standardization.

And what better way to standardized than to support an open source project?"

The symbian mafia are delighted.

PDA shop HANDANGO cracked, commercial downloads available without paying:

Story source

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ohh, last post, i feel giddy

Please check out the negative article about this /. article here

Unlocking the phone so you can use unsigned apps is very simple.

This is a more accurate story entitled "T-Mobile has NOT dumped MS Smartphone, just delayed it a bit".

Also, RCR says:

a T-Mobile spokesman said the carrier had never set a definite date, only that it would begin selling the phone sometime this summer. Spokesman Philipp Schindera said there are software problems with the phone, and that T-Mobile, manufacturer HTC and Microsoft are working to fix those problems. He said the phone has not been delayed, because there are still several months of summer left.

Stinger was only there to test the waters, which is why it mainly only showed up in Europe. Microsoft wanted to experiment with different licensing/signing programs which resulted in a big confusing mess.

Apparently, the Giant liked what he saw in the mess for whatever reason.

Ozone is already being completed with phones on the way. Also, many Stinger phones are on their way. Ozone itself runs on top of the Windows CE.NET 4.1 OS.

I would keep your eyes peeled. I really want to start developing for the mobile market, but I will have to wait to see who wins the CE vs Symbian war myself.